A wind farm in western Taiwan. The next step for the country's turbines will be offshore Photo: Wunkai Wang

IN DEPTH: Taiwan to be an offshore wind force – sooner or later

Taiwan is set to emerge as one of the world’s offshore wind hotspots – but how quickly that happens is still an open question.

26 November 2015 8:08 GMT Updated 28 September 2016 9:21 GMT

By Brian Publicover in Tokyo

In August, shortly after the Taiwanese Bureau of Energy raised its offshore wind installation target from 3GW to 4GW by 2030, Taipei announced plans to invest NT$88bn ($2.7bn) in offshore wind development by 2020 and NT$670bn by 2030, at as many as 36 locations in the Taiwan Strait.

Foreign interest in Taiwanese offshore has been percolating over the past few years, with Denmark’s K2 Management signing on in autumn 2014 as a general consultant for one of three utility-scale offshore wind projects now in development.

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IN DEPTH: Taiwan to be an offshore wind force – sooner or later